It's a stupid, meaningless, illiteracy. The ir- cancels the -less. Just fucking stupid.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary is the McDonald's of dictionaries. Pure crap.

Irregardless of your objections, it's still a word.

As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

"During the breeding season, each male grows 10 to 16 spines. "They are as sharp as a pencil lead," says Hudson, adding that the frogs "do try to stab you a bit when you pick them up". The toads spend most of the year in forests, but in February and March they head to streams to breed. The males arrive first and claim rocks in the fast-flowing water. They spend several weeks swimming around their chosen rock, with hardly any food, grunting underwater to attract females."

Mustaches and grunting underwater - what woman could resist that!

And yet, this is nothing compared to the hairy (or horror) frog, which, apparently "actively breaks its own bones to produce claws that puncture their way out of the frog's toe pads, probably when it is threatened."

Real dictionaries classify it as 'informal'. That is dictionary for 'not actually a word'.

According to my desktop dictionary widget ...

USAGE
Irregardless, with its illogical negative prefix, is widely heard, perhaps arising under the influence of such perfectly correct forms as : irrespective. Irregardless is avoided by careful users of English. Use regardless to mean 'without regard or consideration for' or 'nevertheless': : I go walking every day regardless of season or weather.

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(19-12-2013 04:44 PM)Chas Wrote: Real dictionaries classify it as 'informal'. That is dictionary for 'not actually a word'.

MW also contains an entry for "ain't".

As a portmanteau it's curiously redundant.

I'm inclined to suspect this is yet another example of a mistake that has reached an unnecessary level of recognition.

Girly, you ain't usin' it, is ya?

Only whens Ima writin teckneecap reportz cuz 1) I like dicking with the tecnocrap eddytors and B) cuz I get to says "Did you even fucking read it?" when they miss it.

As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

(20-12-2013 06:02 PM)GirlyMan Wrote: Only whens Ima writin teckneecap reportz cuz 1) I like dicking with the tecnocrap eddytors and B) cuz I get to says "Did you even fucking read it?" when they miss it.

I get it. It's like the bowl of blue M&M's in the hotel requirement of a contract. A test!

Main problem I have with technical editors? They're usually right. ... fuckers.

As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.